News from the Leader of the LGA Labour Group

LGA Labour Annual Report 2017

Out on the campaign trail? Send us your best photos and they may appear in the Labour Group Annual Report. They need to be high resolution and you’ll need to tell us who is in the photo and give confirmation that everyone pictured is happy for us to use it. Please send them to anthie.zachariou@local.gov.uk.

News from Local Labour

Newcastle parks
'to be run by charities' under plans backed by the National Trust

Housing, Local Government and Transport policy commission consultation

The Labour
party has published eight consultation documents, including on Housing, Local Government and Transport
and they want to hear from as many councillors as possible.

The
consultation is open until Wednesday 31 May 2017. All the submissions they
receive will go to the appropriate policy commission who will consider your ideas
before rewriting the documents ahead of a summer meeting of the National Policy
Forum on the weekend of the 1 and 2 July 2017.

The website
also includes details of your local NPF representatives and your elected
officials who are there to represent you in the Agenda 2020
process.

News from the LGA

New Conversations Political Leadership Masterclass

An exciting
(and free!) new masterclass that will help you engage and consult with
residents in an effective and creative way.

If
you find yourself asking “how do we effectively engage at a time when resources
are scarce?”, “how do we build and maintain trust when difficult decisions are
being taken?”, “what are the legal pitfalls that need to be navigated during a
period of unprecedented reform?”, this programme is for you.

This
practical, one-day masterclass will bring the new LGA New Conversations Guideto life. You’ll learn tips and
tools to help build a stronger dialogue between your council and
residents. We’ll share with you creative engagement approaches to build
two-way relationships with your communities, including co-production,
crowdsourcing, events and public meetings.

At the end of
this masterclass, you will have:

been introduced to useful tools, which can be used immediately in your role as councillor

shared and heard best practice from across the sector

taken part in action learning and considered your next steps on how to engage and consult like an expert.

The
Smith Institute would like to invite you to discussion on ‘Winning again:
Understanding what voters want from Labour’. The event will kick off a series
of Smith Institute policy to politics seminars, with a focus on what matters to
voters and what voters want from Labour? We will hear from Deborah Mattinson,
founding partner of BritainThinks and Nick Pecorelli, associate director of The
Campaign Company. After the presentations we will have a Q&A session
chaired by John Healey MP.